December 28, 2016 Interview with Mickey Fulp: Contrarian plays, geopolitics and you Mickey shares what indicators he uses to guide the health of the economy and what those indicators are conveying.
December 22, 2016 CHART: China’s economy growing fastest since 2013 Turnaround in GDP expansion in world's top commodity consumer over the past few months "almost as sharp as in 2009" says new study.
December 21, 2016 Without China global mining would be smaller than in 2000 TABLE: China's copper demand grew 11-fold in 15 years – the rest of the world shrunk. Sans China, the nickel market would've barely broken a million tonnes.
December 21, 2016 Emissions laws will drive record increases in global platinum production to 2020 — report Global platinum mine or metal content in ore production is set to rise from 6.4 million ounces in 2015 to 6.7 million ounces by 2020, representing compound annual growth rate…
December 20, 2016 Applying soft-rock mining concepts in hard-rock mining CAT launched a fully mechanized longwall system for continuous mining of flat and tabular deposits.
December 9, 2016 Sibanye Gold expands platinum assets by buying Stillwater in $2.2bn deal Together with reducing Sibanye’s dependence on its aging South African assets, the deal will make the company the world's third largest palladium producer, the company said.
December 8, 2016 Big drop in South Africa platinum output The African nation produces some 70% of the globe's platinum.
December 8, 2016 Anglo American about to make key decision on South African assets sale While the miner is not longer being pressed to include its platinum assets in the divestment plan, the issue of how to package mines and which ones to include, remains…
December 6, 2016 Palladium price rally may be overdone Ample above ground stocks, rising mine supply could dampen prospects for 2016 best performing precious metal.
Iron ore price nears best close since November on year-end metal rally The steelmaking ingredient advanced for a third straight session in Singapore, climbing nearly 1.8% to as much as $106.55 a ton in intraday trading. December 29, 2025 | 07:51 am
